Hi,

I’m Immaculata, and I believe in the power of the humanities to help us imagine and build more connected/healing experiences for us all–individuals and communities.

I’ve spent all year making the Sweet Medicine project and Restful Magazine to advocate for this belief.

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Some words from adrienne maree brown:

Grace also said, “We must transform ourselves to transform the world.” [...] The way I think of it now is in the framework of the imagination battle: there is a war going on for the future—it is cultural, ideological, economic, and spiritual. And as in any war, there is a front line, a place where the action is urgent, where the battle will be won or lost. The world, the values of the world, are shaped by the choices each of us makes. Which means my thinking, my actions, my relationships, and my life create a front line for the possibilities of the entire species. Each one of us is an individual practice ground for what the whole can or cannot do, will or will not do.

Given the time on the clock of the world, how do we need to transform ourselves to transform the world? How do we need to be? How do we need to grow ourselves in order to both spark and cultivate the kinds of species’ evolutions we want to see? What do we need to practice?

This, to me, is the work of internal accountability. We are cultivating within ourselves a transformative practice that helps us heal from what the world has been, while generating what the world will be.

We must become accountable to our time, our earth, our species, our people, and our loved ones, from the inside out.”

The Fire in My Memory, winner of 2023 Abebi Award in Afro-Nonfiction on life after the Sosoliso plane crash

Whom Did He Love?,  The Brooklyn Rail (2022) hard to say that any one thing is my favourite thing I’ve written but this is often it

Will Africapitalism Save Africa?, Le Temps (2022)

Can Green Hydrogen tackle Nigeria’s persistent energy poverty?,  Unbias the News  (2023)

In the Dark in Nigeria, Popula (2023)
what poor electricity does to our minds


Face the Music, Wuruwuru/ Wax Poetics (2023) 
on re-constructed Nigerian identities in 1970s album covers